Title
Franking machine used by Oversea- Chinese Banking Corporation Limited
Year/Period
1950s-1970s
Region
Singapore
Object Type
franking machines
Dimension
Object size: 26 x 47 x 13.5 cm
Accession No.
1998-01176
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Oversea- Chinese Banking Corporation Limited
NLB Type
Cultural artefact
A Franking machine is a postage payment machine that prints the amount of postage fees on letters, large envelopes and parcels. It saves the trouble of deciding the suitable denomination of stamp to use for each individual mail. This Franking machine was used by Oversea- Chinese Banking Corporation during the early days of banking. It requires a lot of manual handling, unlike the digital franking machine today which can be connected to a personal computer.
